Hot diggity $@#$@#$@#$@# Cody, that's the best written post on the whole "student vs. mentor" lead team comparison ever. Not from a high school or mentors prospective, but a college student's.
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Originally Posted by Cody Carey
The cold hard conclusions that I have come to are shocking to me. They are as follows: FIRST really isn't about learning. FIRST is about inspiring young people to want to learn. It is to show them what engineers do, and persuade them to go to college, to graduate as engineers, and to design our future. FIRST could care less what you've learned along the way in highschool, because you will re-learn it in college anyway. FIRST just provides a game, and a kit of parts.
It is up to each team to teach its members what it will. This is why there are so many polar opposites on CD when this topic is discussed. Because each team gives its members a totally different experience. Some teams Teach that the FIRST experience could not be complete without learning, and some teach that you will do the learning in college, but for now to leave it up to the engineers.
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FIRST is to engineering what a football fan club is to a professional team, not a little league or high school team.
I wish I could write a post as good as yours....